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Hot Spot : Chris Chung

Chris Chung has been making promos and films for the past three years and working for the last two years as a director enjoying the world of short film and digital content. He entered a range of competitions which placed him third in MOFILMs commercial Playstation competition in 2012.
 

Chris also won two awards in the ‘International action on film festival 2013’ including ‘best in show’ for Handuken. His film was also finalist the “Virgin Media shorts” in 2013.

Handuken is a action short film inspired by Hong Kong cinema. Following a detective, in hostile territory, on a solitary attempt to retrieve a fugitive in London’s criminal underbelly.

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